Practice Makes Perfect Beginning Spanish with CD-ROM (Practice Makes Perfect (McGraw-Hill))

Drop uninteresting language classes and research Spanish with this dynamic, multimedia direction! perform Makes ideal: starting Spanish supplies an all-encompassing studying adventure. you will immerse your self in large audio perform and written workouts, providing you with the information and help you must grasp the fundamental buildings of Spanish.

Development and Growth in the Mexican Economy: A Historical Perspective

This e-book is the 1st accomplished and systematic English-language remedy of Mexico's financial heritage to seem in approximately 40 years. Drawing on numerous years of in-depth examine, Juan Carlos Moreno-Brid and Jaime Ros, of the key specialists at the Mexican financial system, learn Mexico's present improvement rules and difficulties from a historic standpoint.

Quetzalcoatl and Guadalupe: The Formation of Mexican National Consciousness, 1531-1813

"In this research of complicated ideals within which Aztec faith and Spanish Catholicism mixture, Lafaye demonstrates the significance of spiritual ideals within the formation of the Mexican country. faraway from being of in basic terms parochial curiosity, this quantity is of serious price to any historian of religions thinking about difficulties of nativism and syncretism.

Imagining Identity in New Spain: Race, Lineage, and the Colonial Body in Portraiture and Casta Paintings (Joe R. and Teresa Lozana Long Series in Latin American and Latino Art and Culture)

Winner, ebook Award, organization of Latin American paintings, 2004Reacting to the emerging numbers of mixed-blood (Spanish-Indian-Black African) humans in its New Spain colony, the eighteenth-century Bourbon executive of Spain tried to categorize and regulate its colonial matters via expanding social legislation in their our bodies and the areas they inhabited.